Brief Life History of Maude M.
When Maude M. Harness was born on 8 November 1880, in Milford Township, Iroquois, Illinois, United States, her father, Benjamin F Harness, was 24 and her mother, Marilla Florence Martin, was 20. She married Thomas Ulysses Grant Wheeler on 19 March 1899, in Milford, Iroquois, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Jackson, Oklahoma, United States in 1910. She died on 2 March 1968, in Milford, Iroquois, Illinois, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Prairie Dell Cemetery, Iroquois, Iroquois, Illinois, United States.
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- Maude Wheeler, "United States 1950 Census"
- Maude Harness, "Illinois Births and Christenings, 1824-1940"
- Maude Harness, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1934"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1889
The Oklahoma Land Run on April 22, 1889, was the first land rush, or land opened for settlement on a first-come basis, opened to the Unassigned Lands. The land rush lured approximately 50,000 people, saddled with their fastest horses, looking to claim their piece of the newly available two million acres. The requirements included the settler to live and improve on their 160 acres for five years in order to receive the title. Choice land tempted people to hide out and get an early lead on their claim. These people became known as “sooners.” It is estimated that eleven thousand homesteads were claimed. Oklahoma Historical Society - Land Run of 1889
1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
Name Meaning
English (Lincolnshire): of Norman origin, from the Middle English and Old French personal name Erneis, Herneis (ancient Germanic Arn(e)gis, possibly from arn- ‘eagle’ + the base-form of gisl- ‘pledge, hostage’). Compare Ernest .
English (Lincolnshire): occasionally possibly also a nickname from Middle English, Old French harneis ‘harness, equipment, gear, tackle (especially body armor and horse trappings)’, used to denote a maker of harnesses or other equipment, or someone who wore a distinctive suit of armor.
Norwegian: old variant of Harnes (and, in North America, probably also an altered form of this), a habitational name from the farm name Harnes, from an unattested word for ‘rock, stony soil’ + nes ‘promontory, headland’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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